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Dis/ability Studies : Theorising Disablism and Ableism.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134060832
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 Finding dis/ability studies -- 1 Disablism -- 2 Ableism -- 3 Intersectionality -- 4 Dis/ability studies -- 5 Researching dis/ability -- PART 2 Exemplifying dis/ability studies -- 6 Precarious bodies: the biopolitics of dis/ability and debility -- 7 Becoming inclusive education: cripping neoliberal-able schooling -- 8 The psychopathology of the normals: why people are so messed up around dis/ability -- 9 Markets, cruel optimism and civil society: producing dis/ability -- 10 Critical dis/ability studies -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: In this pioneering new work, Dan Goodley develops an important new line of enquiry into the comparison of the non-disabled and disabled and disrupting the boundaries between them. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 Finding dis/ability studies -- 1 Disablism -- 2 Ableism -- 3 Intersectionality -- 4 Dis/ability studies -- 5 Researching dis/ability -- PART 2 Exemplifying dis/ability studies -- 6 Precarious bodies: the biopolitics of dis/ability and debility -- 7 Becoming inclusive education: cripping neoliberal-able schooling -- 8 The psychopathology of the normals: why people are so messed up around dis/ability -- 9 Markets, cruel optimism and civil society: producing dis/ability -- 10 Critical dis/ability studies -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In this pioneering new work, Dan Goodley develops an important new line of enquiry into the comparison of the non-disabled and disabled and disrupting the boundaries between them. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people.

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